TABLE OP CONTENTS. 



Saturn and the Earth (the Saturn of the Minor System) compared 

 Relations of great planetary masses, in the Ancient State of the Solar 



System. Possible order and character of successive development 

 Illustrations of Kirhwood^s Analogy ..... 



Failure of the formula derived from Kirkwood's Analogy in the case of 



Uranus. Reason for this ...... 



Approximate coincidence of the result of the same formula with fact, in 



the case of Mars ; admitting the subsidiary hypothesis of half asteroid 



masses ......... 



The (so-called) " Bode's Law" ...... 



Immediately after these we have the Summation of Coincidences, 62 in 



number ........ 



Lastly, we have Siqxplemeiitary Notes (A) and (B). 



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ARTICLE III. (No. 281.) On the General Integrals of Planetary Motion. By 



Simon Newcomb, Professor of Mathematics United States Navy. 18T4. 



4to. pp. 40. 

 § 1. Introduction ........ 



§ 2. Canonical Transformation of the Equations of Motion 



§ 3. Approximation to the Required Solutions by the Variations of the 



Arbitrary Constants in a First Approximate Solution 

 § 4. Formation of the Lagrangian CoefBcients (a^, %), and Reduction of 



the Equations to a Canonical Form ..... 



§ 5. Fundamental Relations between the Coefficients of the time, b^, b.^, etc., 



considered as Functions of Cj, c^, etc. 

 § 6. Development of a, n,-, a',- 

 § 7. Form of Second Approximation 

 § 8. General Theorem 

 § 9. Summary of Results . 



ARTICLE IV. (No. 267.) The Haidah Indians or Queen Charlotte's Islands, British 

 Columbia ; with a brief Description of their Carvings, Tattoo De- 

 signs, etc. By James G. Swan, Port Townsend, Washington Territory. 

 1874. 4to. pp. 22. 



ARTICLE V. (No. 277.) Tables, Distribution, and Variations of the Atmospheric 

 Temperature in the United States, and some Adjacent Parts of 

 America. Collected by the Smithsonian Institution, and discussed under 

 the Direction of Joseph Henry, Secretary. By Charles A. Schott, 

 Assistant U. S. Coast Survey; Member Nat. Acad, of Sci., Am. Phil. 

 Socs. of Philadelphia and Washington, and of Academy of Sciences of 

 Catania, Sicily. 1875. 4to. pp. 360. Nine Diagrams, Two Plates, 

 Three Charts. 



Section I. General remarks and explanation of tabular results 



Special table of corrections for daily variation of temperature in each 

 month and the year, for every hour and for various combinations of hours 

 Tables of mean temperature for each month, season, and the year at various 

 stations, principally in North America .... 



Graphical representation and explanation of the isothermal charts 

 Deductions from the charts of the distribution of the mean annual tempera- 

 ture, and of the distribution of the temperature during the winter and 

 the summer seasons ....... 



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